Definition of backwoods in English:

plural noun

I had always figured the reclusive Yeti as being a mysterious, private creature who lurked in some backwoods plot of land slowly being bulldozed and turned into apartment complexes.

You'd think that the fact it took place, not in a makeshift basement church or at a remote backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building, might have attracted considerable media frenzy.

It's not the witty, clever-yet-deep film you might expect, coming across instead as a lightly funny, lazy exercise in mining the obvious humor value of thrusting a big city film crew into a Northeastern backwoods hamlet.

Derivatives

backwoodsman

Lincoln's career followed a remarkable trajectory from Kentucky backwoodsman to circuit-riding lawyer with political ambitions, realized first by his election to Congress in 1846 and then to the presidency in 1860.

The painting on the sleeve shows a full-bearded figure, like some vaguely ascetic backwoodsman.

‘What we are going to see during this campaign is people attempting to caricature him as some sort of diehard backwoodsman, when that is very far from the case.’